Thomas the Tank Engine passes the top of Snoqualmie Falls and ongoing construction work at Puget Sound Energy's hydroelectric plant. Day Out with Thomas is the Railroad: Thomas The Tank
Locomotive: Steam 0-6-0
Location: Snoqualmie, Washington, USA
Locomotive #: 1
Train ID: Day Out with Thomas
Photo Date: July 13, 2013

Eastbound, returning from the Dayton dry-sort this morning with a string of empties.

The car barn at the Yakima Electric Railway Museum, home of the Yakima Valley Trolleys, is an incredible place. At front-left is YVT 298, a GE electric locomotive built new for the original Yakim... (more)

Earlier in the morning at this location a locomotive hit the ground after a rail rolled under it. Here a crew from Simpson makes repairs to the crossing and trains were running again soon afterwa... (more)

In the cab of STC 1202 on the rear of a Simpson Railroad log train. The 1202 was built for CB&Q in 1959 #610, to BN renumbered #259, to Pacific Transportation Services renumbered #1202, To Simpson... (more)

Seven GP9s and GP9Bs lead a Spokane International train out of Spokane Yard.

Thunderstorms rumble off the Cascade Range as NP Rotary Snowplow No. 10 stands sentinel alongside the Northwest Railway Museum mainline outside of downtown Snoqualmie. This proud warrior was buil... (more)

The 900 has been inoperable for the past year and has made its triumphant return to service after a rebuild. Here it is after a turn switching Mill 5 at the top of the hill this morning and is br... (more)

At the vast dry sort facility located at the west end of the railroad a Simpson conductor guides the 1200 to a hook with the waiting 1202 after the train had delivered logs to be cold decked. Ano... (more)

A split screen view: Simpson power idling on the left, center beam flat sitting on the Mill 5 lead, right. As seen from an empty log flat car.

If while you wait for the stacker to unload the log train you get bored, then get busy with clearing debris from the bottom of the bunkers.

The lumber train was augmented this morning by several empty bunkers. The centerbeam flat loads were on the rear half of the train with the 1201 on the rear. Someone who lives at the intersectio... (more)

The 1201 crawls along Park Street, nearing the end of its morning turn to Mill 5 and back, loaded up with fresh-cut boards. The railroad has begun swapping out the old A-frame cars with newly acq... (more)

A westbound Z train heads downgrade at the Trinidad Loop. BNSF 1101 was involved in a wreck in Arizona in October, 2000, and was nearly totaled. When BNSF repainted it in 2002, it was repainted in... (more)